Interesting questions for Security experts who discover someone
else’s breach.
https://www.troyhunt.com/streamlining-data-breach-disclosures-a-step-by-step-process/Streamlining Data Breach
Disclosures: A Step-by-Step Process
I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to
process. 100? 200? It's hard to tell because often I'm sent
collections of multiple incidents in a single archive, often there's
junk in there and often there's redundancy across those collections.
All I really know is that there's hundreds of gigabytes spread across
thousands of files. Sometimes - like in the case of the
recent South Africa situation - I could be sitting on data for
months that's actually very serious in nature and needs to
be brought public awareness.
The biggest barrier by far to processing these is the effort
involved in disclosure. I want to ensure that any incidents I load
into Have I Been Pwned
(HIBP) are first brought to the awareness of the organisations
involved and whilst that may seem straight forward, it's often quite
the opposite. There are notable exceptions (such as the
recent Disqus disclosure), but more often than not, it's a
laborious process of varying success. Because this is something I do
over and over again, I want to streamline the process and more than
that, I want to seek community input.
Tell me if I'm doing this right. This post documents how
I intend to handle serious incidents with real consequences and
frankly, I don't want to stuff it up.

FBI agents took down or disrupted only about one-tenth as
many cyber criminal operations during the 2017 fiscal year as they
did three years earlier, according to annual reports.

The number of cyber crime operations that FBI agents
dismantled or disrupted fell from nearly 2,500 in
fiscal year 2014, the first year reliable records were kept, to
just 262 in
fiscal year 2017, according to annual audits.

Perspective.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-15/alibaba-s-ai-outgunned-humans-in-key-stanford-reading-testAlibaba's AI Outguns Humans
in Reading Test
Alibaba has developed an artificial intelligence model that scored
better than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension
test.Alibaba Group
Holding Ltd. put its deep neural network model through its paces
last week, asking the AI to provide exact answers to more than
100,000 questions comprising a quiz
that’s considered one of the world’s most authoritative
machine-reading gauges. The model developed by Alibaba’s Institute
of Data Science of Technologies scored 82.44, edging past the 82.304
that rival humans achieved.
Alibaba said it’s the first time a machine has out-done a real
person in such a contest. Microsoft
achieved a similar feat, scoring 82.650 on the same test,
but those results were finalized a day after Alibaba’s, the company
said.

Not sure I agree.
https://www.teachthought.com/literacy/5-dimensions-of-critical-digital-literacy/5 Dimensions Of Critical
Digital Literacy: A Framework
Digital Literacy is increasingly important in an age where many
students read as much on screens as they do from books.
In fact, the very definition of many of these terms is changing as
the overlap across media forms increases. Interactive eBooks can
function like both long-form blogs and traditional books. Threaded
email can look and function like social media. Email and texting and
social media messaging are increasingly similar.

1. Decoding

Focus: the media–modes, structures, and conventions of digital
media

2. Meaning Making

Focus: the reader–style, purpose, interpretation

3. Analyzing

Focus: the author–aesthetics, ethics, and related choices

4. Persona

Focus: a community–how others perceive the issue, topics, and
context

5. Using

Focus: a marriage of self and community–problem-solving and data
acquisition for a variety of authentic–and changing–purposes

Could be amusing.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/15/googles-museum-app-finds-your-fine-art-doppelganger/Google's museum app finds
your fine art doppelgänger
If you've ever wondered if there's a museum portrait somewhere
that looks like you and you're ready to have your ego crushed,
there's now an app for that. Google
Arts & Culture's latest update
now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds
someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. It will
then present you and your fine art twin side-by-side, along with a
percentage match, and let you share the results on social media, if
you dare.

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I live in Centennial Colorado. (I'm not actually 100 years old., but I hope to be some day.) I'm an independant computer consultant, specializing in solving problems that traditional IT personnel tend to have difficulty with... That includes everything from inventorying hardware & software, to converting systems & data, to training end-users. I particularly enjoy taking on projects that IT has attempted several times before with no success. I also teach at two local Universities: everything from Introduction to Microcomputers through Business Continuity and Security Management. My background includes IT Audit, Computer Security, and a variety of unique IT projects.